Salvador Fuentes
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSalvador Fuentes is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in backend systems and Ruby on Rails, currently building large-scale services at GitHub. He has a strong track record delivering production-ready tools across industries—from consumer marketing products at Brookstone Capital to SEO and deployment improvements at YP—often improving developer onboarding and operational efficiency. Salvador combines deep Rails expertise with practical DevOps skills, having containerized tooling with Docker and migrated services to orchestration platforms to reduce footprint and simplify deployments. He’s comfortable leading teams and mentoring juniors, and has presented internal technical talks to spread knowledge on topics like Docker and runtime internals. Based in Irvine, California, he pairs an academic foundation in computer science with a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable systems that serve millions. Less obvious: he repeatedly bridges product and infrastructure work, building customer-facing features while streamlining the developer experience behind them.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, DavisAS, Computer Science, Mathematics, AS, Computer Science, Mathematics at College of the Desert
Spanish
Github Skills (83)
stimulusjs10
hotwire10
ruby10
rack10
haml10
dynamodb10
turbo10
coercion10
dsl10
rails-app10
sinatra10
turbolinks10
kerl9
lambda9
ruby-on-rails9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fuentesjr/dotfiles
Jul 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:58 pushes in 3 years 4 months
fuentesjr/in
Oct 2016 - Apr 2019
Elm and Rails 5 application that extracts data from a social networking site and stores it for search and analysis
Contributions:17 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 6 months
railselmnetworkingextracts-dataruby
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